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How would your bill change the relationship between the Scottish Government and local government on funding, for example? What new powers would it give local government in respect of the ability to have new income streams?
Outcome agreements are still quite a new concept. They have delivered a lot for universities and colleges to ensure that we are looking at the outcomes and that we have a baseline analysis.
There is certainly a problem in that respect, but the long-term answer is to create new housing across the piece for young people of all sorts, and to make sure that those new communities and the new housing are varied and variegated and are not just some provision for new arrivals—the new Scots, if you like.
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Date answered:
2 November 2007
We always intended to produce regulations in January 2020 as a result of the introduction of new equipment in the forthcoming new electronic monitoring contract.
When a care home in the west Highlands closes, it means that a person is likely to have to take a six-hour round trip to visit their mum in the next-nearest care home.